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If you manage a firewall — specially a UTM firewall that does all manner of things including tracking “content” and “applications – then chances are you are going to be asked by Management to provide reports and information about the “how’s” and “who’s” of bandwidth use.  It’s a fact of modern corporate life irrespective of …

Written by Sean Wallbridge. When providing guidance to customers about SharePoint Service accounts (lots of posts out there already, so I’m keeping this short), we end up submitting a recommend service account list (they don’t always go for them, but we do our best at trying to do the right thing). Anyways, SharePoint Service accounts …

It’s hard for me to believe, but July 9 was our 18th wedding anniversary! Back in 1993 after some convincing from Sean, I agreed to fly off to Vegas to get married. I was holding out for a more traditional wedding, but it seemed like all of our married friends said if they could change …

Once both Search and UPS are setup on a SharePoint farm, in order to ensure that the Search Service Application is able to search the User Profile Service Application for users (people), we need to include the content access account in the list of Administrators. Go into Central Admin –> Manage Service Applications. In there, …

I ran into this at a client site recently, and wanted to blog my experience.  I had a number of things not working as expected in the Cache (including Event ID 1000 and Event ID 1026), and at the end of the day, it appears to have boiled down to 2 things.  Firstly, the cache …

Sonicwall has a range of remote access servers that can be very effective in various situations.  There is the SRA range suited to smaller installations (think SMB/SME) and the larger E-Class SRA series that more suited to larger organizations or applications that require a whole bunch of connections at once.  I’ve seen the E-Class units …

Written by Sean Wallbridge.   We recently bought two new cars.  Well, mostly new. Both were Demo’s (cars used typically by staff at the car lot, typically with 3000 to 8000km on it – more about that below). I won’t comment too much on what we bought (a Mini Cooper Countryman and a Ford Flex …

My fellow MVP (and friend, and boss, and colleague, and all-round sarcastic guy) Sean Wallbridge wrote this the other day (July 1st, 2013), and it sums it up well. It was like Christmas today at itgroove and we weren’t even open (Canada Day, eh?). First the new and improved OneNote and then immediately followed by …

Two more of my itgroove colleagues and fellow Team members have been awarded SharePoint MVP’s!  Colin Phillips and Keith Tuomi both received notification today (Canada Day!) that they had each been awarded MVP status.  This brings itgroove to a total of 3 MVP’s which is pretty unreal when you consider the company is less than …

We tend to lose sight of some of the “basics” when all of the “sexiness” of the Cloud and other things get all of the attention.  But it is important to remember that your on-premise kit needs some love and affection, too!  And, most importantly, you need to be mindful of your gateway security. I …